Schoolhouse
The Building:
The schoolhouse is a recreation of a schoolhouse from the 1800‘s. It was built from bricks salvaged from the old Balmforth Avenue School in the 1960s. Local masons volunteered to build the school.
The schoolhouse is a recreation of a schoolhouse from the 1800‘s. It was built from bricks salvaged from the old Balmforth Avenue School in the 1960s. Local masons volunteered to build the school.
Within the schoolhouse, the Museum displays artifacts relating to Danbury's educational history. In 1692, Connecticut passed a law that towns were responsible for providing a school for children. In 1880, it was state law that all children had to attend school until age 14.
Interesting items:
You can see old school desks, books, toys, and pencil cases. The Little Red Schoolhouse reproduces the what children would have seen and used when they went to school there.
Recently, a gas-fired stove was added to the Little Red Schoolhouse to represent the original kind of stove that was once in colonial schools. The heat from the real stove will allow today's Danbury students to actually spend a day in an early American school!
